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Talker's MagazineThe quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).

The AdvocateNo, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.

Media MattersDocumentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.

Orcinushome of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups

Hominid Views"People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.

Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.

Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."

The Moderate VoiceThe voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.

News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.

HistoryLinkFun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

right-wing blogs we like

The Reagan WingHearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.

January 17, 2013

In the aftermath of the recent mass shootings around the country, the National Rifle Assn (NRA) has come out with yet another ad aimed this time at the President's school age daughters. The ad, later pulled after criticism from conservatives such as Joe Scarborough purported to connect the Presidents use of Secret Service protection for his children at school as hypocritical to the rest of Americans who supposedly face the same type of threat.

Scarborough related on his Morning Joe show via Media Matters: Scarborough, who as a Congressman was a strong supporter of the NRA,
responded to the ad, asking "what's wrong with these people?" He
continued, pointing out that once Obama decided to run for president,
his children "have targets on their backs." Scarborough also said that
the NRA is now a "fringe organization with millions of mainstream
members." He concluded by saying the ad was "frightening and over the
line."

The NRA wasn't the only dog whistle being blown, El Rushbo was also in on the act:

Comparing the executive order signing yesterday with children standing around the President, Limbaugh bellowed: "The children's as human shield show"
Others collaborating with Rush on twitter includes FOX radio's Todd Starnes who yapped:

Another spare parts talker, FOX' Tammy Bruce tweeted "Really? How about Obama using dead children as pawns?"

Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama
over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued
executive orders on gun control, including George H. W. Bush and Bill
Clinton.

Executive orders concerning a ban on assault weapons is nothing new. In 1989 after a mass schoolyard shooting in Stockton Calif, then President George HW Bush signed an executive order banning the importation of certain semi-automatic . This was based on the 1968 gun control act.

1952 Supreme Court ruled Executive Orders cannot be used to make new laws. However, Executive orders can be used to manage the enforcement of an existing law such as the Gun Control act of 1968. Both the 1989 signing and President Clinton's signing in 1998 banning 50 semiautomatic weapons that were modified due to "sporting purposes" exemptions.

The President could also use another existing law to sign additional orders. The National Firearms Act (NFA)
of 1934,(after the St Valentines Day Massacre,FDR signed) which levied a tax on the transfer of firearms. The President
could use an executive order to institute a database and background
checks centered on the sale of firearms; in other words, managing an
existing law.

November 27, 2012

Talkers and others are reporting that talk show host Laura Ingraham has parted ways with her syndication, Talk RadioNetwork (TRN). Another spare parts of radio hosts, Tammy Bruce is filling in.

Earlier this year Michael "Savage" Weiner sued to end his contract with TRN.

Savage after consuming a dinner of hot dogs.

Ingraham states :

"After more than 9 years with the distributor Talk Radio Network, I
decided it was time to move on. After much thought and reflection, I
have decided to pursue my first loves — modern dance and the xylophone.
In the highly unlikely event that these efforts do not prove fruitful, I
intend to return to radio. Seriously — to the more than 300 stations
that carry the Laura Ingraham show and to all my loyal listeners, I feel
the time is right to expand and retool my radio program and to explore
other syndication options, which I am now actively pursuing. During
this brief hiatus, my team and I will continue to deliver
thought-provoking and entertaining analysis via my website.”

February 04, 2011

She's been reading from the latest winger script that insists, darkly that President Obama is secretly conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood in order to give the terrorists control of Egypt, the Middle East and ultimately, the US and Europe.

This time she's tried to distinguish herself (if you can use the word 'distinguish' in the same sentence as Tammy's name without choking) from the winger herd by calling for the impeachment of President Obama, “If it is found that Obama secretly facilitated or 'encouraged' an Islamist takeover of Egypt..." She called on Rep. Darryl Issa to help out. (he's the designated Republican witch hunter in the House, who is pledged to dog the administration with bullshit investigations).

Tammy Bruce's credentials: she's “a gay, pro-choice, gun-owning, pro-death penalty, Tea Party Independent conservative” so she's got to be fair and balanced. (the gay/pro-choice part is a big problem for Tammy- keep reading).

Where she once screeched, she now tweets: (though it's hard to tell the difference)

“If it is found that Obama secretly facilitated or 'encouraged' an Islamist takeover of Egypt, an ally, he should be impeached.”

“Impeachment? We have a President in up to his elbows in an Islamist takeover of Egypt while he ignores a Fed Judge order to void ObamaCare”

“The House impeaches–if there are grounds it should be done. @DarrellIssa needs to 'immediately' determine Obama’s involvement w Egypt”

“@DocBruceP It’s more than 'losing' Egypt, if Obama 'facilitated' the overthrow of an ally in favor of our *enemy* that’s impeachment”

She, like so many of her kind (Laura Ingraham wannabes, if you can imagine) tries every once in a while to break out of the right-wing media ghetto by saying something so outrageous it's picked up by the MSM.

This didn't make it, but it was passed like flatulance through on Floyd Brown's site, a great place, BTW, to delve into the most extreme, fact-free, right-wing exhudations.

Bruce last broke through in 2009 when she called Michelle Obama "trash."

Tammy Bruce, is a truly unpleasant, LA talker who's been trying hard of late to promote her 2nd-tier syndicated talk show. She appears frequently on such Fox News stops as Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity; she'll eat the occasional kitten, and kick the occasional toddler with her nine-inch fuck-you pumps.

Her schtick is that she's a pro-choice, ex-feminist, formerly "classically liberal" (if that's not pushing the oxymoronic to the sublime) activist who saw the light and became a conservative.

She was once the president of a National Organization for Women (NOW) chapter. Now she's the go-to guy when Billo needs a feminist. Although she renounced progressive politics more than a decade ago, she's often called a "self-described liberal" by the right wing outlets on which she appears.

A reason (besides she's tonally abrasive) she's not caught-on in the right-wing world-at-small is that she self-describes as an "openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, progressive feminist."

Her Lesbian-ness and pro-choice-itude have certainly been factors in the slow national growth of her right-wing shriek-show which has been around since 1993. These things are high among the unforgivables on the right's litmus list for acceptable positions, and lifestyles.

Tammy Bruce can call the Obamas anything she can think of, but until she's cured of that homo behavior, and renounces abortion -- to the dittoheads, she's just another colorful California talk host -- fascinating but never to make the A-list. She can count on being dismissed, discounted, and mocked behind her back by the very conservatives to whom she's trying so desperately to pander.

The graciousness, the smarts, and the national belovedness of Michelle Obama eclipses the harpings of this harpy, but maybe her nasty mouth has again got her a few appearances on the fair & balanced channel.

KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.

KTTH am 770 KHzRight wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.